Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Management has hardened because of rising costs and declining profits, and is inclined to suffer strikes, especially those that help to clear away excess inventories. Union attitudes have stiffened both because the labor market is tight and because of increased militancy on the part of the rank and file. Most union members are in a better position this year to sit out a strike. A Detroit striker who is drawing benefits from the United Auto Workers and has some money in his bank account was inclined to welcome the chance to watch the World Series on television and to take...
...from Bedsteads. For its boss, Cope Allman also pours forth a salary that, at $112,000 a year, is second only to Flour Tycoon Joseph Rank's ($117,600) in Britain. Unlike most British corporate chiefs, Matchan paved his way to the top not on the playing fields of Eton but at London amuse ment parks and movie lots. The son of a sewing-machine repairman, Matchan parlayed a modest talent for figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with...
Thousand Families. The Shah has not always been so enlightened. Installed by occupying British and Russian troops in 1941 to replace his pro-Nazi father-an illiterate foot soldier who rose to the rank of general and then seized the throne-the Shah came to the palace as a spoiled young man interested mainly in pretty girls and flashy cars. He had plenty of oil money to spend, and the unqualified cold-war backing of Washington, which saw him mainly as an anti-Communist with a long border with Russia. For ten unremarkable years, he lived in luxurious disdain...
Holder of the Keys. Although Jesus frequently encountered angels-such as the ones who ministered to him after the 40 days' fast in the desert-the Bible mentions only three by name. By common agreement of angelologists, these three-Michael, Gabriel and Raphael-rank at the very top of God's celestial hierarchy. Michael, whose heavenly hosts tumbled Satan and his evil legions into hell, is the holder of the keys to heaven. Gabriel presides over paradise and, according to none other than Mohammed, was the angel who at God's command dictated the Koran. Raphael...
...academic reasons for taking Military Science course; they simply are required for commissionig as a Second Lieutenant. Each of the four courses in Military Science comprises a half course which runs throughout the year, and each is given full academic credit; it can effect a student's rank list, as either a fourth course or a fifth course...